Youth Boot camps

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A boot camp in Maryland was investigated by the FBI for abuse. The charge was guards regularly beat inmates in their charge. This charge has lead to the dismissal of the head of Maryland's juvenile justice department. Gilberto de Jesus Maryland's secretary of the state Department of Juvenile Justice was forced out along with four other state officials(27 ).

A US Justice Department investigated a boot camp in Georgia. The investigation found that the facility was overcrowded and dangerous to the point of being unconstitutional (28 ).